Eighty-year-old Emily Pye owned a grocery store on Gibbet Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, and she’d been running it for thirty years. She was a long-established fixture in the community and well-loved by the locals. Saturday, June 8th, 1957 was a public holiday, and the store had been open as normal. Emily had plans later … More Emily Pye
Shortly before ten-forty-five on the morning of Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, a man entered the Lane Bryant clothing outlet store in the Brookside Marketplace in Tinley Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Wielding a Glock, he herded four customers, the store manager, and a part-time employee, all women, into the back of the store. There, … More The Lane Bryant Shooting
Forty-year-old Keith Rogers, described as a “gentle man” with “many friends” by his family, lived in a second-floor flat on Station Road in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England. In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 29th, 2001, while Keith was asleep, someone poured gasoline through the letterbox of his apartment and set it alight. Awakened by … More Keith Rogers
On New Year’s Eve of 1987, nineteen-year-old Trevor Monerville was on his way to visit his aunts when he mysteriously went missing. The following day, his family found out through the grapevine that he may have been taken to the police station in Stoke Newington, London, England, and they went there to find him. At … More Trevor Monerville
Sixty-four-year-old Eric Carver lived alone in a house in Lenton, Nottingham, England. On December 23rd, 1980, he was found bludgeoned to death in his bed. Forensic examination determined that he had been struck between seven and ten times in the skull with a wrench or a hammer and that he had likely been killed sometime … More Eric Carver
Eighty-three-year-old Warren Wheeler had spent twenty-seven years as a stoker in the Royal Navy, and later worked as a postman. He lived with his seventy-nine-year-old wife Elizabeth in a house called Yatscombe Cottage in Boars Hill, Oxfordshire, England. The couple had lived in the home for nearly three decades, but it had fallen to rack … More Warren and Elizabeth Wheeler
Twenty-seven-year-old Julie Smailes was described as a fun-loving young woman who worked as a sales manager at Sun Micro Systems in Greencroft, County Durham, England. She lived alone in a house on Wingrove Terrace in nearby Leadgate. On the night before Halloween of 1996, Julie was at home, watching TV and chatting on the phone … More Julie Smailes
Fifty-year-old Mary McKinlay was the head English teacher at Duncanrig Secondary School in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, and was described as friendly, affectionate, dedicated, and well-loved by her students. She lived alone in an eighth-floor flat in Glen Tower on Range Road, Motherwell. On Saturday, May 21st, 1994, Mary was seen conversing with a … More Mary McKinlay
Thirty-year-old Tom Hewitt owned a garage on Bright Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, England, and was only weeks away from marrying his longtime partner Sylvia, with whom he had a son. Sadly, though, he would never get the chance to walk down the aisle. Tom was working in his garage on September 7th, 1974, when an … More Tom Hewitt
Thirty-five-year-old Sarah Lewin was a mother to two children named Leanne and Kyle, but lived alone in a council house on Bradley Boulevard, Sheepridge, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. In 1994, she was unemployed, her only income derived from selling amphetamines. She was also believed to be marginally involved with an operation that smuggled alcohol and … More Sarah Lewin
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